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6/14/2010 7:07PM

Long Lost Yankee Mascot Uncovered

The Yankee Dandy, the long lost and ill-fated mascot from the Bronx, deserves reconsideration ahead of the Yanks series with the Philadelphia Phillies. Surprisingly, the Phillies mascot, the Phanatic, shares a common ancestry with the Dandy. Matthew Rivera reports.

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I ... the Phillies the coming year history to play against the first place Yankees ... in a repeat of two dollars and nine World Series ... but this time the Phillies are the top of the game ... this isn't something of a mid June slump ... but fear not Philadelphia fans ... you have one small advantage over the Bombers ... and that's in the form of the Philadelphia fanatic ... the Yankees used as a mascot a pinstripe berthing with a giant moustache and a red handkerchief ... the dandy as he was known ... so disliked by his management ... that he is best for the upper deck ... his tenure as Yankees mascot only lasted between nineteen eighty in nineteen eighty five ... to this day the Yankees don't have any photographic evidence of the mascot ... Danny was introduced in the late seventies at the same time as resurgent a mascot following the wild success of the San Diego chicken ... the chickens antics were so well received ... the new crop of mascots was born in the eighties Danny was created by the same team with Harrison and Bonnie Ericsson ... that created the Philadelphia matter ... and though the matter eventually took its place alongside classic mascots like Mr. mad ... the dandy hasn't been seen since ... for The Wall Street Journal I matthew